Vending-machine.



PATENTED NOV. 8', 1904. W DIEBBL I VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. a. 1902.

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No: 774,235. PATENTED NOV. 8, 1904.

W. DIEBEL.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 6. 1902.

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No. 774,235. PATENTED NOV. 8, 1904.

' W. DIEBEL.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 8. 1902.

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PATENT ()EEicE.

VENDING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 774,235, dated November 8, 1904.

Application filed. $eptember 6, 1902. Serial No. 122,319. (No model.)

I Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Vending-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in coin -exhibiting devices for vending-machines, and has for its object to provide a device which will exhibit a number of the last coins inserted in the machine and one coin will be automatically removed from the device whenever a new coin enters the same.

The principal feature of this invention consists in providing means whereby several of the coins last inserted in the machine are visible from the exterior, so that the customer, onlooker, or storekeeper may see if a counterfeit coin or slug has been inserted in the machine, and thus detect the guilty party. This will form the subject of my claim, although- I will describe the machine as a whole, the other features of the machine forming subject-matter for separate applications.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which--- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my machine complete. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the coin-exhibiting device; Fig. 3. a horizontal section through the casing of the machine, showing a plan view of the coin-exhibiting device; Fig. 4, a front elevation of the coin-exhibiting device, showing the same in its normal position; Fig. 5, a similar view to Fig. 4, showing the releasing-lever being operated upon by the last-deposited coin; Fig. 6, a section taken onthe line 10 10 of Fig. 2.

A represents the casing of the machine, the back A of which is hinged, so as to open to gain access to the operating parts of the mechanism, and to remove the money from the machine the top A is made removable.

0 represents the slide for operating the delivgry-slide, having a button O upon its outer en A pane of glass B is inserted between the front of the casing A and the merchandise upon the interior. This pane of glass closes the opening A in the front of the box; but there may be glazed openings A on the sides and top of the box, if desired.

This application is not intended to deal with the interior mechanism of the machine, as that forms subject-matter for separate applications, and this application is only intended to deal with the coin-exhibiting device by which a certain number of coins are exhibited at the front of the machine after said coins have passed through and operated the machine. After the coin has operated the machine it falls into the chute K, (shown in Figs. 2 and 3,) which is inclined downward and toward the front of the machine, and this chute is so bent at the point K as to turn the coin from a vertical to a horizontal position. The coin will then travel into the coin-exhibiting device L, extending outward from the front of the machine. This coin-exhibiting device consists of an incline guideway which is covered by a strip of glass L, under which the coins pass. At the lower end of the guideway an opening L is formed, which connects with another downwardly-inclined passage L which extends back into the machine.

M is a lever arranged within the guideway and sunk beneath the platform over which the coins travel, so as to be flush with said platform, and said lever is pivoted to the platform at the point M. The lower end M of the lever when in its normal position passes across the opening L so as to prevent any coins entering the passage L Upon the upper end of the lever is formed an upturned lug M and the coins in passing into the device L will strike this upturned lug l 3 and cause the lever M to rock upon its pivot M, which will move the lower end M of the lever so as to uncover the opening L and thus allow the lower coin to fall into the passage L and be deposited in the machine, and therefore the balance of the coins in the exhibiting device L will drop, and the lowermost coin will then strike an upturned lug M" upon the lower end of the lever M and rock the lever M back to its normal position, and thus the lowermost coin will have automatically obstructed the passage L before said coin has I reached the same. Thus it will be seen that the last five or six coins deposited in the machine will be exhibited at all times, the number of coins exhibited only depending upon the length of the exhibiting device L and the length of the lever M. By this device any one inserting a counterfeit coin or slug in the machine will be detected.

In Fig. l, P represents the opening through which the merchandise emerges from the machine and falls into the receptacle P, arranged at the front.

Of course 1 do not wish to be limited to the exact construction here shown, as slight modifications could be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is- In combination with a machine of the character described, a coin-display apparatus consisting of an inclined guideway through which the coins are adapted to pass, said guideway being closed upon the outside, said guideway provided with an opening, said opening being of larger diameter than the coins so that the lowermost coin may pass through the opening sidewise at right angles to the chute, a lever located in the display device, said lever being pivoted to the chute intermediate of its two ends, the lower end of said lever normally crossing the opening in the lower end of the display device, a lug extending upward from the upper end of the lever with which the last-deposited coin is adapted to come in contact so as to rock the lever and uncover the opening at the lower end to release the lowermost coin, an upturned lug formed with the lever near its lower end with which the lower coin of the column when descending is adapted to come in contact with so as to return the lever to its normal position to close the opening at the lower end of the chute, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto aflixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VILLIAM DIEBEL.

\Vitnesses:

L. l). HEINRIoIIs, L. \N. MoRRIsoN. 

